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  hood, 
  say 
  the 
  Van 
  Ness 
  place 
  and 
  J. 
  C. 
  Hageboom's, 
  Squampanoc, 
  

   or 
  Squampaaniac, 
  but 
  nobody 
  knows 
  its 
  origin." 
  Squam 
  usually 
  

   refers 
  to 
  a 
  rocky 
  summit, 
  but 
  the 
  whole 
  word 
  might 
  also 
  be 
  applied 
  

   to 
  a 
  fishing 
  place 
  of 
  some 
  kind. 
  

  

  Ska-an-kook 
  or 
  Skaanpook 
  was 
  a 
  creek 
  which 
  became 
  the 
  Tawas- 
  

   tawekak 
  lower 
  down. 
  

  

  Tagh-ka-nick 
  or 
  Tacahkanick 
  lay 
  east 
  of 
  RoelofT 
  Jansen's 
  kill. 
  

   Ruttenber 
  says 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  at 
  first 
  a 
  local 
  name, 
  though 
  now 
  having 
  

   a 
  wide 
  range. 
  Locally 
  it 
  is 
  pronounced 
  Toh-kon-ick, 
  and 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  

   have 
  been 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  a 
  spring 
  on 
  the 
  west 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  mountain 
  

   in 
  Copake. 
  This 
  has 
  suggested 
  the 
  interpretation 
  as 
  water 
  enough. 
  

   It 
  is 
  now 
  usually, 
  applied 
  to 
  the 
  mountains 
  and 
  town, 
  and 
  from 
  the 
  

   former 
  geologists 
  have 
  the 
  term 
  Taconic. 
  Some 
  have 
  defined 
  this 
  

   as 
  forest 
  or 
  wilderness. 
  Zeisberger 
  has 
  Tachannike, 
  full 
  of 
  timber, 
  

   and 
  this 
  seems 
  a 
  good 
  definition 
  for 
  the 
  local 
  name. 
  Mr 
  Tooker 
  

   discussed 
  the 
  name 
  at 
  some 
  length, 
  with 
  a 
  different 
  conclusion. 
  

   He 
  said 
  that 
  a 
  place 
  near 
  Shekomeko 
  was 
  called 
  K'takanatshau, 
  

   the 
  big 
  mountain, 
  and 
  that 
  Ket-takone-adchu, 
  a 
  great 
  woody 
  moun- 
  

   tain, 
  is 
  the 
  proper 
  title 
  of 
  this 
  range. 
  

  

  Tak-ki-che-non 
  was 
  a 
  meadow 
  bought 
  in 
  1678. 
  

  

  To-was-ta-we-kak 
  or 
  Twastaweekak 
  is 
  now 
  Claverack 
  creek. 
  The 
  

   upper 
  part 
  was 
  called 
  Skaankook. 
  

  

  Wa-cha-ne-kas-sick 
  was 
  a 
  creek 
  opposite 
  Catskill 
  in 
  1683, 
  when 
  

   the 
  first 
  purchase 
  for 
  the 
  Livingston 
  manor 
  was 
  made. 
  The 
  name 
  

   may 
  be 
  from 
  Wadchinat, 
  to 
  come 
  out 
  of, 
  and 
  quassick, 
  stones, 
  i. 
  e., 
  

   a 
  stream 
  from 
  a 
  stony 
  place. 
  It 
  is 
  also 
  written 
  Wackanhasseck, 
  

   Wachankasigh 
  and 
  Wackanekasseck, 
  suggestive 
  of 
  other 
  names. 
  

  

  Wa-peem 
  Wats-joe, 
  east 
  mountain, 
  is 
  said 
  by 
  Mr 
  Tooker 
  to 
  have 
  

   been 
  the 
  Indian 
  name 
  of 
  Karstenge 
  Bergh, 
  a 
  place 
  called 
  from 
  an 
  

   Indian 
  to 
  whom 
  the 
  Dutch 
  had 
  given 
  a 
  name. 
  Wadchu 
  is 
  

   mountain. 
  

  

  Wash-bum 
  mountains 
  are 
  on 
  a 
  map 
  of 
  1798. 
  

  

  Wa-wa-na-quas-sick, 
  at 
  the 
  heaps 
  of 
  stones, 
  may 
  differ 
  from 
  the 
  

   other 
  form 
  in 
  meaning 
  by 
  deriving 
  it 
  from 
  wauwanot, 
  witness, 
  and 
  

   quassick, 
  stones, 
  thus 
  making 
  it 
  stones 
  of 
  witness. 
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  Wa-we-igh-nunck 
  patent, 
  1743. 
  

  

  Wa-wi-jeh-tan-ock, 
  land 
  about 
  a 
  hill, 
  is 
  Tooker's 
  name 
  for 
  a 
  

   place 
  in 
  this 
  county. 
  

  

  